First edition of British novelist, poet, journalist, and garden designer Vita Sackville-West’s second collection of articles from her weekly gardening column in The Observer, covering the period February 1951 to March 1955. Published in 1955 by Michael Joseph. A successful author in her own right, Sackville-West was the inspiration for the title character in Orlando by Virginia Woolf, who was her lover. 8vo, original publisher’s cloth with pictorial dust jacket, 179 pages, illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and seven monochrome plates. A crisp and lovely copy. Minor glue burn to endpapers, otherwise NF. Light bump to dj, with moderate damp staining to rear cover; front cover pristine.
First edition of British novelist, poet, journalist, and garden designer Vita Sackville-West’s second collection of articles from her weekly gardening column in The Observer, covering the period February 1951 to March 1955. Published in 1955 by Michael Joseph. A successful author in her own right, Sackville-West was the inspiration for the title character in Orlando by Virginia Woolf, who was her lover. 8vo, original publisher’s cloth with pictorial dust jacket, 179 pages, illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and seven monochrome plates. A crisp and lovely copy. Minor glue burn to endpapers, otherwise NF. Light bump to dj, with moderate damp staining to rear cover; front cover pristine.
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